Associate Professor, School of Biochemistry and Immunology

Dr Emma Creagh

Lecturer, School of Biochemistry and Immunology

Research areas: Research interests in the link between Cancer and Inflammation. The role of inflammatory caspases and their target proteins in intestinal inflammation during Inflammatory Bowel Disease (IBD) and Colorectal Cancer.

Lecturer, School of Biochemistry and Immunology

Professor James Murray

Assistant Professor, School of Biochemistry and Immunology

Research areas:
Investigating the autophagy cell survival and damage response pathway in cancer and ageing-related disorders, to derive new strategies and drug targets for therapeutic benefit. Research focuses on the role of protein and lipid phosphorylation as regulatory mechanisms for control of autophagy activity. Recently started projects are now looking at mitochondrial quality control and mitophagy in Parkinson's disease models.

Dr Nigel Stevenson

Assistant Professor and Coordinator of the M.Sc. in Immunology

Research areas: Intracellular Immunology. The main focus of the Intracellular Immunology group is to understand the mechanisms by which pathogens target and evade molecular and cellular immune responses.

Assistant Professor, School of Engineering

Dr Conor Buckley

Assistant Professor (Tissue Engineering), School of Engineering

Research areas: Development of strategies to regenerate the intervertebral disc (IVD) and articular cartilage. Other research areas include design and development of bioreactor based systems, tissue engineering, nutrient micro-environments, biomaterial interactions and 3D scaffold construct technology

Dr David Hoey

Research areas: Dr. Hoey leads a multidisciplinary experimental mechanobiology research group where his goal is to integrate engineering mechanics into the understanding of the molecular basis of physiology and disease

Prof. Eoin Scanlan

Lecturer, International Coordinator, School of Chemistry

Research areas: Development of novel synthetic methodology for the construction of oligosaccharides and glycoconjugates, the synthesis of carbohydrate-based therapeutics for treatment of diseases, the synthesis of immunogenic carbohydrates and the synthesis of glycoconjugates for bio-imaging

Prof. Padraic Fallon

Stokes Professor, School of Medicine

Research areas: My research involves two overlapping translational immunology themes. i. The use of mouse models to study pathogen modulation of human inflammatory diseases. ii. Immune phenotyping of patients, in particular children, with inflammatory diseases such as atopic dermatitis and pulmonary fibrosis. Research aims to elucidate new mechanism of modulation of immunity that can alter inflammation and have therapeutic potential. Collaborative activity involves the phenotyping of new transgenic mice. The main diseases addressed are allergic lung and skin inflammation and inflammatory bowel disease. A growing emphasis is applying extensive expertise in animal models of human inflammatory diseases and general pathophysiology of inflammation to functional analysis of new therapeutic molecules/strategies with clinical collaborators and Pharma.

Dr Maria Jose Santos-Martinez

Research areas: Platelet biology and pharmacology. Contribution of platelets to cancer progression (tumor invasion, angiogenesis and blood metastastasis). Application of Quartz Crystal Microbalance with Dissipation (QCM-D) technology to platelets, cell biology and nanomaterials. Nanotoxicology: understanding nanoparticle-cell and nanoparticle-platelet interactions. Interactions between nanoparticles developed for drug delivery, their targets and the potential barriers that they have to be overcome to exert their action.